The Scholarly Kitchen
Archive for May 2008
SSP TMR Blog Debuts
The Society for Scholarly Publishing‘s Top Management Roundtable meeting, scheduled this September 3-5 in Philadelphia, PA, now has its own blog, updating interested parties about the meeting’s format, linking to interesting work from speakers, and allowing for blogging at and after the meeting. This year’s Top Management Roundtable has as its theme, “Constant Content and … Continue reading
Info at your fingertips (without a screen or a keyboard)
Is it possible for people to have information at their fingertips without being tied to the usual web brower or even a book or journal? In her talk “Just-in-Time Info” Pattie Maes, Associate Professor, MIT, Program in Media Arts and Sciences gave a fascinating plenary talk at the SSP meeting yesterday. She has challenged her … Continue reading
Phil Davis — Another New Cook in the Kitchen
My, what a week it’s been! Two people I admire greatly have agreed to join the Scholarly Kitchen, serving up hot and tasty insights for our hungry STM guests. First, Nature Publishing Group’s Howard Ratner agreed to be an occasional contributor. Now, Phil Davis, a self-described “PhD student (and recovering Science librarian)” from Cornell University … Continue reading
Stuart Brand’s Gift
In an interesting interview with John Markoff, author of “What the Dormouse Said,” Stuart Brand is described as having the uncanny ability of showing up at the right place and right time to influence major ideas. One of these cases was the Mother of All Demos. It was held in 1968. Not only is the … Continue reading
Book Digitization Will Continue
The recent announcement by Microsoft that it is canceling its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic doesn’t mean that book digitization initiatives are coming to a halt, states Joseph Esposito in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In fact, the decision by Microsoft to leave equipment with institutions, and the digitization momentum … Continue reading
Howard Ratner — A New Cook in the Kitchen
Please join me in welcoming Howard Ratner, Chief Technology Officer and EVP for the Nature Publishing Group, as a new contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen. Howard will be writing occasionally. I’m personally thrilled to have the help, especially from such an excellent and knowledgeable source. There are plenty of raw ingredients to cook up here, … Continue reading
Live Entry 2: Green
An interesting session on “Green Publishing,” meaning more environmentally aware publishing choices. One observation from the audience is that there were two types of “green” being mentioned in the same breath — the type when choices are made solely based on the best interests of an environmental stance (so, green in the chlorophyll sense), and … Continue reading
Live Entry 1: Crowds
The SSP Annual Meeting is going on in Boston, and attendance is amazing on this beautiful spring day in Boston. Alex Wright, author of “Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages,” gave this morning’s keynote. He did a nice job of portraying the different ways our efforts to create a balance between information hierarchies and information … Continue reading
Watch Out, “Professionals”!
According to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle, a new publishing entity called 8020 Publishing is showing that the wall between amateurs and professionals sometimes collapses when tested. While creating travel and photography magazines named, respectively, Everywhere and JPG, 8020 Publishing has learned that user-generated photography and travel text is often very good. And … Continue reading
Interface Eye Candy
Two new visualization approaches have caught my eye, and though I typically loathe cute interface write-ups (the kinds of interfaces that generate write-ups are usually too trendy and ephemeral, and won’t stand the test of time), since today is a hard-hitting day at the SSP‘s Annual Meeting in Boston, I thought a little interface eye … Continue reading
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